The Bass Doc

Bet he's feeling a bit like his Ebay name.

I'm pretty sure this was a bass commissioned by a customer of mine way back when I had the business of The Bass Place in Newcastle. Jim Cairnes built the neck and I did the rest. But no idea where it is now.

Oops....missed Jigster's earlier PM - Now replied. Look like a pickguard has gone astray in the Christmas post. Will get on to the local PO to make a claim.

It may be that Rocco was so used to pivoting on the E A pickup cover that his prototype simply left that one in position and the D G half 'leapfrogged' ahead rather than a straight swap-over. I can imagine the drawing they worked to showing the E A position would have an arrow pointing to that half saying "Rocco pressed here". Coat please......

Looks to me that the one in the video has the pickup a bit nearer the neck than the one shown in fareastguitars?

Just completed a smooth deal with Will for a bridge. Splendid chap.

[quote name='4000' timestamp='1384556496' post='2278276'] Best thread title ever. :-) [/quote] I thought this would have been started by Billy Apple and that folks would go OT and the thread end up pear-shaped.

How much do you pay as an entrance fee?

I may ask him a question:- The bridge can be affective on placement of tone bias or the original plate sublime?

First wife.

Took an instant dislike to the oval pickguards on Stingrays back in 1978. Now I think they look rather splendid.

On sale here on Basschat................ by oldslapper under 'Frankenfretless'.

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1382705510' post='2255667'] Er.... what [b][i]is[/i][/b] "funk bounce"? [/quote] I think it may the effect achieved when playing a funk line by that renowned bassist Jim Mirror-Kwai whilst sitting astride a spacehopper

ME Me me PM on the way.

I may be able to help as I've owned a couple of Polytone combos in the past and may still have a copy of a manual somewhere. From memory though the specs suggested the amp could cope with impedances as low as 2-3 ohms and the internal driver was almost certainly 4 ohms so an extension cab of 8 ohms would work at the resulting impedance of 2.66666..... I think the second jack on the back panel would have been labelled 'Main Out' and would feed say a slave amp or go direct to a PA system. I'll let you know if the manual can be found.

Thing is, with dice for knobs, the volume will only go up to six.

Any trouble finding one, let me know - got some in my spares drawer.

You have the wrong jack socket there. A stereo one should be acquired so that the three terminals it carries will enable the battery to be disconnected when unplugging. The grey lead looks like it should contact the earth point of the new jack, the white to the tip, leaving the battery connecting to the 'middle' terminal of the stereo jack socket.

Nigel should have great 'pride' in the project but I wonder if it will ever be his 'mane' bass. # You can't hide your lion eyes.....#

[quote name='The Bass Doc' timestamp='1380823921' post='2231204'] There has been an attempt to copy this thread into the Japanese version of BC but they have been warned off doing so by a secretive but powerful organisation. Yes folks................. The Triads [/quote] Similar thing happened in Sicily - warned off by the Mafia boss 'Scarface' Al Coda.

There has been an attempt to copy this thread into the Japanese version of BC but they have been warned off doing so by a secretive but powerful organisation. Yes folks................. The Triads

Word has it that one of the Mods is upset at the standard of puns, has lost his tempo and is about to lock this thread.....if he can find the right key, that is.

I'll just have a diet Coda please.

I think this was before the smoking ban when customers could hardly breve.